Referee's report by Frederick Gowland Hopkins, on a paper 'The distribution in wheat, rice, and maize rains of the substance, the deficiency of which a diet causes polyneuritis in birds and beri-beri in man' by Harriette Chick and E Margaret Hume Sectional Committee: Physiology Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests no delay in publication, as similar work is being done in America. [Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' B, 1917] Endorsed on verso as received 30 January 1917. [January 1917]